Adam Martin

A New York federal court judge has rejected Citigroup's $285 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with which the bank had hoped to dispose of a massive lawsuit claiming it misled investors in mortgage-backed securities to the tune of $1 billion.

Remember the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program with which the federal government came to the rescue of faltering banks in 2008? Well, according to a Bloomberg report, that was just a fraction of the financial help the Federal Reserve Bank wound up doling out to troubled lenders.

Police in Los Angeles have started arresting protesters as they crack down on an Occupy Wall Street demonstration there in which a large but peaceful crowd gathered to protest an order for the encampment to leave a city park.

The WikiLeaks truck that graced the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park for most of its duration got lost last week when New York Police impounded it, and now that it's been found in a police impound lot, it's not in great shape.

A new round of data from the federal government on Wednesday showed jobless claims went up a little bit for the week, with 2,000 more people applying for unemployment for a seasonally adjusted 393,000 while consumer spending rose 0.1 percent in October, which was less than the 0.7 percent gain in September.

With impeccable timing, a new round of hacked emails from professors at Britain's East Anglia University has surfaced, about a week before the start of a global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.

The New York Police Department is proud of itself for the arrest of a "lone wolf" terrorism suspect over the weekend, but the timing of the bust and the ambivalence of federal investigators have some suggesting the department had an ulterior PR motive.

An Associated Press story Monday on the CIA's "badly damaged" operation in Lebanon gives a rare glimpse into the methodology used by opposing intelligence networks to track down U.S. spies, which look a lot like old-school P.I. work.

Oscar Ortega, the man who faces assassination charges for allegedly firing a gun at the White House on Nov. 11, found success as a mixed martial arts fighter over the summer, but he also suffered from, as a psychiatrist told The New York Times, in a "textbook case" of schizophrenia.

It's another one of those images that galvanizes activists, embarrasses police, and makes competing photographers seethe with jealousy, and Portland Oregonian shooter Randy L. Rasmussen didn't even know he had taken it.

Waking up from a big news day like Thursday is a little like waking up with a hangover: The images of the night are still swirling around, but you're not quite ready to put the whole thing into a narrative yet.

Whether you agree with it or not, the police raid on Occupy Wall Street certainly stirred up media interest the movement, which is something it had already been planning to do itself with a massive "international day of action" on Thursday.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled protesters didn't have a First Amendment right to camp in the park, but the park has been reopened to protesters without camping gear, and they're having what amounts to a party.